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John Jeremiah Sullivan has 13 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
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The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it,…
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I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
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What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
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I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look…
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A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
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One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…
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Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
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The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,…
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I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated…
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The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest…
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Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.
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The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
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You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.
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